Lord Ellenborough.—He might have used the word thieves; but it is very unimportant. It is giving a consequence to a phraze that is in very common use, and means very little.
Mr. Gurney.—I put the question to him in terms, whether he did not go to search for thieves in the house.
Mr. Marryatt.—He adopted the whole of the sentence certainly, in the answer he gave to the question.
Mr. Bolland.—There were two propositions in the question, which was, whether West and the witness did not go directly in search of thieves? and the answer applied to the first part of the question—“as to going together.”
Lord Ellenborough.—It is a very common expression, and no consequence ought to be attached to it.
Mr. Gurney.—We had heard before that he had made use of that phrase, and therefore we were desirous of questioning him about it.
Common Serjeant.—You are quite sure he did not explain in what way this man behaved to him?—No.
Did he say any thing like this:—“That he came to his bed-side, and laid his hand upon his private parts?”—No, Sir.
This was on the night of the 25th of September?—Yes.
You, I believe, afterwards went before the Magistrate, at the same time with Foreman the apprentice?—Yes.